{"id":23994,"date":"2025-09-25T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/carlos-alcaraz-overcomes-ankle-fear-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:15:41","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-overcomes-ankle-fear-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/carlos-alcaraz-overcomes-ankle-fear-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz overcomes ankle &#8216;fear&#8217; in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TOKYO &#8211; Carlos Alcaraz suffered an ankle injury but recovered to defeat Sebastian Baez 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of the Japan Open on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 1 said he was &#8220;scared&#8221; when he fell 2-2 in the first set. Alkaraz rubbed her eyes and grabbed her left ankle in visible discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I planted my ankles, I wasn&#8217;t feeling well at first, so I was worried,&#8221; Alkaraz said. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy that I&#8217;ve played good tennis and finished the match very well. I&#8217;m going to try and recover so I can prepare for the next round.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz needed a strap before continuing the match and securing a place in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was worried that I wasn&#8217;t sure I would finish the game, but Physio came and did some tests,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was able to walk to the bench and it gave me confidence. I am trying to have a warrior mentality in every match, in every aspect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8211; Carlos Alcaraz suffered an ankle injury but recovered to defeat Sebastian Baez 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of the Japan Open on Thursday. World No. 1 said he was &#8220;scared&#8221; when he fell 2-2 in the first set. Alkaraz rubbed her eyes and grabbed her left ankle in visible discomfort. &#8220;When I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,1597,25,330,6400,589,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-23994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alcaraz","9":"tag-ankle","10":"tag-carlos","11":"tag-fear","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-overcomes","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}